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UN Photo(4th meeting) 2nd Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent - Thematic Discussion: Transnational Migration
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is organizing the second session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent from 30 May to 2 June 2023 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The overarching theme of the second session is "Realizing the dream: A United Nations Declaration on the promotion, protection and full respect of the human rights of people of African descent".
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Item 5: Thematic Discussion (continued): Transnational Migration
As the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2001) recognizes, migration is increasing from the Global South to the Global North. It is especially critical that laws, policies and practices towards migration effectively combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development affirms that migration is a multidimensional reality, which includes countries of origin, transit and destination, and requires coherent and comprehensive responses. It promises that the international community will cooperate to ensure "safe, orderly and regular migration involving full respect for human rights and the humane treatment of migrants regardless of migration status, of refugees and of displaced persons." The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2018)—which upholds principles of non-regression, non-discrimination and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the realization of the human rights of migrants, including racism, xenophobia and intolerance—is a step towards fulfilling this promise. The increasing migration of people of African descent across the world due to such issues as climate change and natural disasters, poverty, political instability, and armed conflicts calls for expanded, multi-dimensional, intersectional understandings of, and solutions to, migration. This panel will focus on solution-oriented conversations and recommendations, while highlighting the crises of Haitian migrants within the Caribbean as well as to the North and South America and migrants of African descent around, across and in the Mediterranean, one of the deadliest waterways in the world.
The Second Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) will be part of a global consultative process with a focus on five thematic panels on global reparatory justice, Pan-Africanism, transnational migration, data-collection for recognising and addressing systemic and structural racism, and health, well-being and intergenerational trauma.
View moreView lessAs the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (2001) recognizes, migration is increasing from the Global South to the Global North. It is especially critical that laws, policies and practices towards migration effectively combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development affirms that migration is a multidimensional reality, which includes countries of origin, transit and destination, and requires coherent and comprehensive responses. It promises that the international community will cooperate to ensure "safe, orderly and regular migration involving full respect for human rights and the humane treatment of migrants regardless of migration status, of refugees and of displaced persons." The Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration (2018)—which upholds principles of non-regression, non-discrimination and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the realization of the human rights of migrants, including racism, xenophobia and intolerance—is a step towards fulfilling this promise. The increasing migration of people of African descent across the world due to such issues as climate change and natural disasters, poverty, political instability, and armed conflicts calls for expanded, multi-dimensional, intersectional understandings of, and solutions to, migration. This panel will focus on solution-oriented conversations and recommendations, while highlighting the crises of Haitian migrants within the Caribbean as well as to the North and South America and migrants of African descent around, across and in the Mediterranean, one of the deadliest waterways in the world.
The Second Session of the Permanent Forum on People of African Descent (PFPAD) will be part of a global consultative process with a focus on five thematic panels on global reparatory justice, Pan-Africanism, transnational migration, data-collection for recognising and addressing systemic and structural racism, and health, well-being and intergenerational trauma.